Politics

Eugene Doyle: Will Israel and the US wreck the Gulf States along with Iran?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The United States and Israel have, for decades, pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may...

From the gauntlet to stopping the Iran war, Joe Carolan makes action plea

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report A peace advocate urged people in New Zealand today to get behind a...

West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military

REVIEW: By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening...

Devastating new ‘ecocide’ film to premiere at West Papua solidarity forum

Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating “ecocide” happening in West Papua will be screened as...

Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster

It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the...

Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. A rather beautiful...

PMC director blasts politicians, media over ‘shameful silence’ on West Papua

Pacific Media Watch in Brisbane Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie condemned the Australian and New Zealand governments and mainstream media for their “deafening silence”...

Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn – David Robie on TRT

Asia Pacific Report Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of people,...

Talanoa: expanding millennial notions of a ‘Pacific way’ journalism education and media research culture

By David Robie As critical issues such as climate change, exploited fisheries, declining human rights, and reconfiguration of political systems inherited at independence increasingly challenge...

Pacific media should ‘bear witness’ to human rights violations, says Robie

Human Rights and Social Development A prominent journalist and founding director of Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre, Professor David Robie, has shared his...

David Robie: A future in Pacific journalism in the age of ‘media phobia’

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2018: By David Robie Kia Ora Tatou and Ni Sa Bula, For many of you millennials, you’re graduating and entering a Brave New World...